Kabuuan : 119Chapter 1 Introduction
SHATTERED CASTLE Written By Emmanuel Ugokwe (C) Note Be mindful of the fact that all the settings, incide
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Contents Part one – Harvest of Tears Part two – The Cannibals and White Dragons Part three
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Because of the spirit with which the young nationalist pursued their independence, it was difficult
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It was Tuesday, everyone remembered, ten o’clock, the sad news made headline in the air. “…The milit
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a beginning of pangs of distress, the Republic of Kandala got nailed by such brutality. It beggared
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For these three years, this conflict torn the country apart. It was everywhere in the news that this
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“It is sufficiently sad and condemnable that in politics, the goods are the most vulnerable and the
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You could feel the tension as the government officials were about to leave. His speech was full of a
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The next day, it continued, going deep to other territories. A rumor which was later confirmed true
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Within days the office and house of General Sango had been bombed. The two generals had gone on diff
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Each part which the war had reached had it own verse of the story about the war. It was now a total
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At the hall, many were allowed in without interruption. The officers immaculately turned out in cris
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“No one wants to be absorbed into this war and that is why I still maintain that there is no war her
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“As this meeting lasts or even before it was called, a decision had been postponed indefinitely. Hon
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Eastern civilians and soldiers who could be found almost in all business flourishing cites in the Re
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He met his grandfather, the father of his father. The old man had long been expecting the homecoming
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The war had lasted for eighteen months apart from the earlier times. The eastern zone - a remote and
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It was purely a matter of chance that most of these young men were still alive, they might had been
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Isala was on air that morning for an official announcement for the end of the war. Every ear was on
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Fresh tears ran down her cheeks and made runnel down her make up the second times as she watched her
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The excitement at the beginning of the gathering got the adrenalin flowing to a higher degree. The c
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The first priest spoke loudly to the moderate volume that the microphone provided. He read this oath
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The church wedding did not drag much longer and they were blessed. It was time for grand reception w
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Many who so loved Mr. Zack gave vent to the emotions as he publicly teased and held his wife. See th
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On the second day, it would end. It was though evening and almost all guests had gone. Those who wer
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Part Two The Cannibals (1970’s and 1980’s) ‘ The men, happy men, full of kindly faces, happy for the chi
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All through the time it lasted, she sat staring into space, her eyes so fixed for long at one point
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Fresh tears ran down her cheeks and made runnel down her make up the second times as she watched her
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Wedding day! One’s happiest day. It was the long-awaited day. The time had arrived for the whole wor
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The church wedding did not drag much longer and they were blessed. It was time for grand
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Everything about the movement of the plane was suspicious at first and always. No announcement was m
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The plans to rid him simply had not failed. The pilot had accepted his huge money to burn him on the
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The country was busy observing minute’s silence for the departed souls of these dignitaries, making
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Widows, orphans relatives and seething crowds of human beings from all corridors of life e
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“Where is he exactly”? “In heaven with God” was his reply. “Give him our love if see you him, and tel
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Silence! “I want to add that the society is getting more and more insecure. The country is fast decay
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It was a moment on wait. Time to explode. Time to do undo and show he had some secret which he knew
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Destitute at the gate and the streets around could only have a few days of this paradise sort as if
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Things never remained the same and never be the same. She had been a city woman, very popular in pol
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“Now Zack is dead” he continued” may his soul rest in Aljanar firdaus. You cannot continue this way
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* The rain that morning had stopped. It was only cold. And sometimes it brought down light showers an
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“Sit down and listen Pius” said Uka who himself was anxiously waiting for the forecasters who had b
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Nothing could make him come back. Her utmost priority was her children. She would have loved to offe
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The body was in no time acceptable to the majority. They were splitting hairs over the powers of the
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They knew nothing to say and do nothing to prove anything they had not said. They knew where to get
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By all outward pretense Mr. President deceived everyone into the belief that the investigators over
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“Guard, guard, guard. “He called out. No one seemed to be answering him. He was lost in thought ove
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* Pius was only thirteen when he left home to the den his friends introduced him to in his new public
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As young as he was, he was already missing Mr. Zack more than anyone who had missed him was. These
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They passed a gas station renowned Mr. Chills and Indiana Modern Bank building and the next was obvi
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“ I’ve often heard of you. We are not new to ourselves. Right from the university days in Italy, we
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At the time of his calling by Mr. Ribadau, he was sitting. He had fought his conscience
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The memory mood capriciously died away and everyone was set to leave. Pius walked to his father to
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Zanda was handsome enough, but indirectly lean, clean and hard as athletes. He was an impressive ge
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In all Muslim dominated territory, the story was the same. Ram bleats in all homes of both the rich
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Suddenly the voice of the Imam who had been busy with calls announced loudly to the hearing of every
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She was beginning to understand Africa and its politics and policies on power, not on papers anymore
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She looked radiantly beautiful and younger, slim and soft in skin, though an African to the fingerti
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By evening all sort of persons started coming home, but not even one of them escaped a bad
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“All my life, I have not stayed in a place like this. I loved my father sincerely, his dea
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Quickly, he rolled down his glass. Their eyes met for a few second, but no message was transferred,
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Having been long in women game life, it was a rare thing, cracking mind on how next to ha
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It was wonderful to see the effect those word had on him as she walked out majestically with her han
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* Time passed, painfully passed. Pius had learned a great deal in adjusting to life. Living in such
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As those moments of contemplation passed, he was not quite certain about the next step, in
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“Remember we are in a bad fix and can easily be known and dictated. Guys, be wise enough a
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Many problems confront the country now. Economic recession was beating the country hard. Only a hand
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“Ambassador Zack, I can as well compete with you on the seat of presidency. It is good we are warmi
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It was difficult to buy him over and for the worst part, the ruling party tried but he left them in
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‘I never knew I was going to make the worst mistakes and decisions of my life. There may not be wron
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Mr. President sat with his fingers propping his chin as his usual custom and could not say anything
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That voice spoke again and again for emphasis in his mind; the president’s voice. He knew it was no
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And would die of fear if they ever caught sight of an enemy draw a dagger. He removed his cap and s
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This was the fear of everyone. No one wants to be Jesu Christi to die for the whole country, not the
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The party comrades who knew it all were all lying. How could he - an academician, holding degrees in
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He had managed to accept being sorely on the side of Deremo who would probably stand with him in try
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His name had been put to the mud. Many news reporters were paid to put him on the bad list, some wer
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That was Travor, the only man from another party during his regime as the governor. He was
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When the call came incessantly, Pius acceded and drafted plan to see him in a more mechani
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Something might be binding them. They could not just sit and transfer look. Both went into silence.
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“Come on please, you may have been constantly successful to a reasonable degree. Your reasoning if I
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Before he could withdraw his mouth from the direction where Uka was seated, Uka had poured him the
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Many generation had gone never seeing the dream that the war offered and generation that came were
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It was rumored that both the architecture and the building engineers that built the house died the
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‘I fear a great deal, I do not see him at these times. I learnt he is in the city. He does give me c
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“I hope you have not allowed Pius issue and troubles to weigh you so down”. Asked Uka as he came ou
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“No”. He answered in a frantic smile and wiped away the tears. “Why? Do you know where he resides?” “
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She was full of regret now. Terribly regretting for her actions, but it was so late. All those years
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Because he had been in the bosom of his mother’s best friend and husband, he wanted to be
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‘ Wild display of torture and possible extermination in public places, playing jungle justice and la
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On his appointment, there were high expectations, politically, socially and geographically. There we
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They had been left high and dry with no hope of expectation. Those ultra-loyals strove hard to out-d
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“I promise to do that” he replied solemnly. The gathering ended suddenly. Gatherings like that were
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“There is every reason to believe you. You know how big, strong and fit the people from the opposin
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Finally, Mr. President haughtily stood up adjusted himself and said. “ Uka my young professor and fri
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In the last one decade when he had planned to leave the office for a successor, he had publicly decl
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Ribadau had lost so much interest in many things. His wife only preached him to accept whatsoever th
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In the end, they caught Mrs. Zack coming in and a compelling voice force in Mr. Ribadau made her pul
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* That was a silent afternoon. The sun was still some moment from the horizon. It was beaten the eart
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The kitchen was a home to all modern foods and drinks of assorted kinds. The kitchen that
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“That is very unreasonable of you young lawyer. You know nothing about the law of politics
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To him and Pius, their greatest nightmare was the family crisis, that had defied solution as a resul
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Among the four legal children of Mr. Zack, he was one and only son that inherited one admirable trai
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‘ What a disloyalty from mom! When I read that in her lines from the letter she wrote me in my unive
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‘I agree to everything you said. Mother possibly would not like to come home, even if Mr. Ribadau is
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He was a man of principle and chivalry who was at the pinnacle of his political career and who could
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For days and weeks on end, thorny issue of who killed Mr. Ribadua had fortunately taken the front bu
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The ripe hour of his assassination came suddenly and Pius masterminded it on the influence of Gani f
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A round of cheers and applause followed and died down. “The new millennium ushers in a hope for the p
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* Mrs. Zack had clocked fifty seven, but looked twice older than her age. The many days of young wom
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She walked unaccompanied to the sitting room and sat herself, cried and cried and cried from the hea
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To her freshest and second adventure in forming marriage alliance with Mr. Ribadau, she hoped such a
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She and Uka had cuddled him like a baby and indulging him to every affair of the family, which he do
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The election reduced the ruling party’s prestige more in the eyes of the earth to a rump. They took
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Everybody had held before now Professor Uka high, because of his academic achievement, but his poor
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Bunch of potbellied former officials of stamp and nature who had long left office for other jobs wer
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It was late for such reconciliation, but he holds the power. They tricks of his predecessor would so
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Only if the post of vice president failed Mr. Ribadau, he would actually be the hot favorite initial
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The judge stared at the audience, putting his glasses on the table and cleared his face. It is time f
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